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Jason Day hit a bunker shot from nearly 100 feet away to set up a four-foot par putt on the final hole to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational at the Bay Hill Club in Orlando on Sunday. With the victory, Day moves up to the number-two world ranking, earning $1.134 million. With a 17-under-par 271…

A state Representative is introducing legislation in Harrisburg which would place new restrictions on the use of drones in Pennsylvania. After hearing from sportsmen’s groups concerned about drone use by animal rights advocates, Democrat Gerald Mullery has sponsored a bill which would make it a summary offense to use a drone to interfere with lawful…

Andrew McCutchen slammed his fourth home run of the preseason on Sunday, but the Pittsburgh Pirates still fell to 5-12-1 in Grapefruit League play with a 3-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Florida. Troy Tulowitzki also belted a two-run homer for the Jays (12-4), and Ryan Goins added an RBI double. The Pirates…

The Penn State Nittany Lions captured the NCAA wrestling championship in New York City over the weekend, and two Penn State wrestlers claimed individual titles. The Nittany Lions clinched the championship for the fifth time in the last six years. Nico Megaludis (125 lbs.) and Zain Retheford (149 lbs.) both brought individual gold back to…

Connor Rakow, a freshman, led a roster of Franklin High School swimmers who competed last week at the PIAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Bucknell University in Lewisburg. Rakow medaled with an eighth-place finish in the 50-meter freestyle event, extending the Franklin Knights boys’ string of consecutive Top-16 finishes to twelve. The Lady Knights fared…

The Pittsburgh Penguins won for the ninth time in their last twelve games on Saturday afternoon, defeating the Flyers 4-1 in Philadelphia. Trevor Daley, Carl Hagelin, Chris Kunitz and Kris Letang scored for Pittsburgh (39-24-8). Marc-Andre Fleury (31-16-6), who faced only 17 shots, stopped 16, and earned the win. Radko Gudas tallied an unassisted goal…

A Leeper man drowned Friday in a pond on a sportsmen’s club’s property in northern Clarion County. 75 year-old James Watson had reportedly been cleaning the pond on property along Marble-Strobleton Road in Washington Township near Fryburg early Friday afternoon. His body was found by two other men at about 2:45 PM. The Clarion County…